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To: Nevermind <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
Subject: Re: installworld failure
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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 20:07:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>
Cc: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	"Ken's list account" <lists@lists.symmetric.net>,
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Nevermind <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> seems to have written:	

> Hello, Crist J. Clark!

> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:22:52PM -0800, you wrote:

> > > mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var
> > > mtree: line 63: unknown user smmsp
> > > *** Error code 1
> > > 
> > > ====
> > > 
> > > what is wrong here?
> > 
> > You don't have a user smmsp in your passwd(5) database. Update your
> > master.passwd(5) and group(5) files and try again.
> Shouldn't it be done by mergemaster? I think that build/install should
> not depend on this kind of things, or there should be note in handbook
> (&& | ||) UPDATING that mergemaster should be run _before_ installworld.



PRTAM  (Please Read the Awesome[*] Manual)

Cf. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
viz. subsection 19.4.3.

-- Salvo

[*] People used to say RTFM (F standing for 'fine').  Over the past few 
months, however, the FreeBSD handbook has become a work of art^W^W^W^Wreally 
awesome :-)

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